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Evening Standard
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Miriam Burrell

US explorer Mark Dickey freed from one of Turkey’s deepest caves

An American cave expert has been rescued after falling seriously ill with stomach bleeding while spending more than a week in one of Turkey’s deepest caves.

Researcher Mark Dickey, 40, was on an expedition to map the Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains when he became sick on September 2, more than 3,000 feet below the cave entrance.

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